Course Details

Earth Structures

Academic Year 2025/26

NFA015 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIK Winter Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Lumír Miča, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Geotechnics

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295912

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction of Earth structures.
  • 2. Mechanical properties and specifics of soil/rock material, secondary materials, light weight fills.
  • 3. Mechanical properties and specifics of soil/rock material, secondary materials, light weight fills (contin.).
  • 4. General principles of designing earth structures – settlements and stability analysis.
  • 5. Ground improvement – Preloading, Vacuum Consolidation, Vertical drains.
  • 6. Ground improvement – Deep Compaction, Vibroflotation.
  • 7. Ground improvement – Deep Soil Mixing.
  • 8. Ground improvement – Stone Columns.
  • 9. Geosynthetics – properties; separation, filtration, drainage and erosion function.
  • 10. Geosynthetics – reinforcement function.
  • 11. Nail structure.
  • 12. Gabions.
  • 13. Monitoring of Earth structures.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Determination of strength parameters of geomaterials.
  • 2. Determination of stifness and technological parameters of geomaterials.
  • 3. Design of embankment (settlement analysis).
  • 4. Design of embankment with using software (stability analysis).
  • 5. Design of prefabricate vertical drains.
  • 6. Design of mechanically stabilized earth wall.
  • 7. Credits.